Please do whatever you can..sign a petition or make calls  to contacts within the Oklahoma Tribal offices and let them know your opinion of what they are doing to our ancestors....Ish)

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM WYANDOT OF KANSAS
 

September 3 1997, news came to the Wyandot Nation from Congressman Vince Snowbarger's office and was confirmed by Hal Walker (City Attorney for Kansas City Kansas), that the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma plans to dowse for human remains at the Huron Indian Cemetery. The Oklahoma Wyandottes plan to survey for the graves of Wyandots within the next two weeks to make way for a casino development on the cemetery itself. In February 1994, Chief Leaford Bearskin threatened to exhume the graves at the Huron Cemetery and move them to Oklahoma with the intent of building a casino on the sacred burial ground. The Wyandottes of Oklahoma have threatened the Huron Indian Cemtery with commercial development for the past 150 years and have rejected all proposals of conciliation as well as the development of a confederacy to protect the burial grounds of the Traditional Kansas Wyandots.

The Traditional Wyandots, the Wyandot Nation of Kansas find this action abhorent and stand firmly against such threats against the sanctity of our burial grounds. The Huron Indian Cemetery is the epicenter of our religion and culture and is historically significant to our people. As traditional people we view the threats against the cemetery by our cousins to be sacrilege and an example of what happens when native peoples become assimilated into white culture.

For full details regarding the Huron Cemetery and the threats to its sanctity, please go to: Huron Cemetery History

Niawenh
Thank you
Darren English / Chiwatenehwa
Member of the Traditional Wyandot Nation of Kansas

"Cursed be the villian that mollest their graves"
      Helena Conley - traditional medicine woman of the Wyandot Nation of
Kansas resident of the Huron Indian Cemetery